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Lecture Title: Neurodevelopment and Alcohol: From Cell Adhesion to Cell Phones Presenter: Michael E. Charness, M.D. Chief of Staff, VA Boston Healthcare System; Faculty Associate Dean and Professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School; Associate Dean and Professor of Neurology, Boston University School of Medicine For additional details visit www.niaaa.nih.gov/about-niaaa/our-work/research-portfolio/projects-init…
NIH-funded multi-site clinical trial suggests that smokers may also benefit A new medication that targets part of the brain’s stress system may help reduce alcohol use in people with alcohol use disorder (AUD), according to a new study by researchers at the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), part of the National Institutes of Health. “Medications have become...
NIAAA hosted a Twitter chat with the American Society of Addiction Medicine (ASAM) on October 6, 2016 at 12:30pm. # AlcoholChat You can access the chat at https://storify.com/NIAAAnews/chat-medications-for-alcohol-use-disorder This event takes place in conjunction with ASAM's State of the Art Course in Addiction Medicine, October 6 - 8 in Washington, DC. Follow NIAAA at https://twitter.com/niaaanews
Scientists at the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), part of the National Institutes of Health, propose using an assessment tool to diagnose addictive disorders that considers addiction-related behaviors, brain imaging, and genetic data. According to a new review article, the Addictions Neuroclinical Assessment (ANA) would facilitate future understanding of the origin of addiction at a biological level...
Researchers have identified a blood test that may help predict how severely a baby will be affected by alcohol exposure during pregnancy, according to a study published November 9 in the journal PLOS ONE . The study authors, from the University of California San Diego School of Medicine, Texas A&M College of Medicine and the Omni-Net Birth Defects Prevention Program...
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For more details about the American Academy of Addiction Psychiatry Annual Meeting & Symposiumvisit http://www.aaap.org/annual-meeting/
Scientists from around the country will share latest results and discuss widespread implications of the BRAIN Initiative What: The NIH will host a meeting of nearly 1000 people who are part of the Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN) Initiative, a large-scale public and private effort to develop new tools and technologies to understand the healthy and diseased brain...
NIAAA seeks innovative designs that use alternatives to measuring BAC through sweat The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, part of the National Institutes of Health, is once again challenging the biotech community to design a wearable device capable of measuring blood alcohol in near real-time. The ideal device would be capable of measuring alcohol concentration in the blood...
The 2016 Monitoring the Future (MTF) annual survey results released today from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) reflect changing teen behaviors and choices in a social media-infused world. The results show a continued long-term decline in the use of many illicit substances, including marijuana, as well as alcohol, tobacco, and misuse of some prescription medications, among the nation’s teens...